Gemma Hayes - Hollow of morning
Posted by PacMusic on May 11, 2008
Rhaspy sexy voice.
The general genre of this music is cute female singer songwriter. There’s plenty of them out at the moment and they are all quite similar and it really is just based on personal preference which ones you like and which ones you loathe. Gemma Hayes flops lazily into my loathe tray and refuses to move, The music is quite heavy in weight and is very demanding, being really quite flat and uninteresting. I prefer my female singer/songwriters to be cool and quirky and Hayes fails to meet my very specific requirements.
There’s a lot of noise in the songs and this gives me a bit of a headache, it’s not clean, it’s not crisp, it’s just saggy and unappealing. At one point in ‘Out of our hands’, I had to pause the music, to make sure that there wasn’t something else making noise on my computer and mixing with the album, creating a frightful din. It turned out it was just the song.
It also sounds like it was recorded in someone’s living room, which I would have forgiven, had the music been good.
Listen to this album: With your head in a carrier bag.
Rating: 59%
Extracts from ‘This is what you do’, ‘Out of our hands’, ‘In over my head’, ‘Don’t Forget’, and ‘At Constant Speed’
‘Out of our hands’ (live in LA)
May 12, 2008 at 1:08 pm
It really seems that you don’t know anything about music.
“to make sure that there wasn’t something else making noise on my computer” don’t ever listen to My Bloody Valentine or your speakers are gonna freak you out!!!
“The general genre of this music is cute female singer songwriter” what kind of male chauvinist are you???
it’s ridiculous to make a review of an album if you’re just a lazy listener…
May 12, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Hi Briag.
In regards to the fact that I thought that there was extra noise coming from my speakers was reference to the fact that there seemed to be a lot of noise that didn’t sound like to was supposed to be there.
The thing with My Bloody Valentine is there seems to be an artistic purpose to every sound that comes out of my speakers, but with Hayes, this doesn’t seem to be the case.
As far as the chauvinism goes, i was referring to a genre style that is very popular at the moment and Hayes appears to be going down the same route in style and content.
If I was a lazy listener, then it is surely the fault of the album and not me, as it should have grabbed and inspired me. It didn’t thus the album fails.